bottom fishing

bottom fishing

In pursuit of something at the lowest possible price, even if the quality is compromised as a result. I know you want to go bottom fishing, but make sure you're ultimately still getting a good product.
See also: bottom, fishing
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bottom fishing

n. seeking something at its lowest price; seeking something at a low cost and willing to accept inferior quality. I don’t think bottom fishing for stocks is always wise. There is always a good reason why the price is low.
See also: bottom, fishing
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • in pursuit of
  • in pursuit of (someone or something)
  • be in pursuit
  • pursuit
  • be in pursuit of (someone or something)
  • bag out
  • hoops
  • no man can serve two masters
  • a man cannot serve two masters
  • for (something's) own sake
References in periodicals archive
A meta-analysis of the effects of bottom fishing revealed that less than one-half of the studies addressing this topic examined the long-term recovery of the benthic community (Collie et al., 2000b).
If you are going over for traditional bottom fishing, be ready for at least a little bit of pelagic fishing or deep dropping.
Exciting day trip options include Coron Island Tour, Calauit Safari, Bottom Fishing and Island Hopping.
Bottom line, you can troll a lure like this from bottom fishing spot to spot--and then even bottom fish with the same rig, if you liked.
MAXEL offers a couple of interesting hybrid-style reels this year, great for deep-jigging, bottom fishing or slow-pitch jigging.
Investors appear to be bottom fishing after a one-month 43% slide has shares near 2018 lows and as the company holds a Petrobras Day London 2018 event Wednesday.
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature is claiming this will have "little effect" in practice, and had hoped instead for a simple prohibition of destructive bottom fishing practices in these areas.
THE PACKAGE PUT FORWARD INCLUDED A FREEZE ON THE CURRENT FOOTPRINT OF BOTTOM FISHING - SO THAT THE AREA IN WHICH THESE PRACTICES CAN BE CARRIED OUT IS NOT EXPANDED ANY FURTHER - AS WELL AS THE IMMEDIATE CLOSURE OF ALL KNOWN VULNERABLE HABITATS TO DESTRUCTIVE FISHING PRACTICES, SUCH AS BOTTOM TRAWLING, USE OF TOWED DREDGES, BOTTOM GILL NETS, AND USE OF CERTAIN TYPES OF LONG LINE.
Using long leaders for bottom fishing? Clip your weight.
Specific elements of the package to be put forward include a freeze on the current footprint of bottom fishing - so that the area in which these practices can be carried out is not expanded any further - as well as the immediate closure of all known vulnerable habitats to destructive fishing practices, such as bottom trawling, use of towed dredges, bottom gill nets, and use of certain types of long line.
Despite being the dog days, there are five targets that are still hot and peaking these months and they are all Keys to the core: yellow tailing, mutton snapper fishing, lobstering, swordfishing and deepwater bottom fishing. It's not that we don't get this stuff elsewhere in Florida, but just that, for the most part they're all a bit more ...
The nighttime bottom fishing along the offshore reefs in August offers plenty of opportunity at catching mangrove, mutton, yellowtail, lane and large cubera snapper, plus an assortment of grunts and jacks.
June 14: Bottom Fishing Seminar, Half Hitch Tackle, Navarre
Amelia Island harbors a multitude of ledges beginning some eight miles offshore where the FA fish haven, also referred to as the "Fernandina Snapper Grounds," offers excellent bottom fishing for red snapper, flounder, sea bass, triggerfish and the highly sought gag grouper [coordinates for the main ledges are 30-38.13'N/ 81-13.22'W; average depth 65-70 feet].
Bottom fishing in Boca Grande Pass, Captiva Pass or Redfish Pass will produce fat mangrove snapper this month for those anglers willing to deal with unhooking undersized grouper and re-rigging after encounters with tackle-snagging rocks.